Nicholas Spiro
Chief Commercial Officer
Viral Nation
Nicholas Spiro is the Chief Commercial Officer at Viral Nation, where he turns creator chaos into commercial gold. From Snap to Meta to Twitter, he's basically had a front-row seat to every social media plot twist-and somehow made them all profitable. Armed with an MIT MBA and a psychology degree, Nicholas understands both what makes people click and what makes the clicks count.
Nicholas has been regularly scheduled as a public speaker including his Keynote at PTTOW, Snowflake's Data Cloud Now, Keynote at AdvertisingWeek, ADWEEK’s Leadership Voices, Cannes, DMS Luma, and on Podcasts such as Creator Upload and Millenium Live Leadership.
He has been featured prominently across media outlets, including his op-ed in ADWEEK, The New York Times, NetInfluencer on Psychology and AI, Digiday Creator Live Shopping, Digiday World Cup, Digiday Forbes Creator, Authenticity in Marketing for eMarketer, Creator Publishing Networks for Digiday, eMarketer Measurement Trends, eMarketer Brand Safety, eMarketer Social Intelligence, Ad Age Creator Benchmarking, LEGO Innovation for AdvertisingWeek, NetInfluencer Brand Safety, and PR Net.
Nicholas is regularly cited by the Social Platforms, including on Google Case Study, Google for Business, and Instagram for Business.
Within the Marketing industry, Nicholas serves on the Board of Directors for the American Advertising Federation, Jury for ADWEEK 50, Creative Strategy Jury for the London International Awards, Jury for the AAF Hall of Achievement, Jury for Clios Creators, an executive member of the The International Academy of Digital Arts and Science and has been honored as a winner of the AI Power 50 for ADWEEK and a winner of the 2026 ADWEEK Agency Vanguard Award.
He has won multiple Shortys for Chief Demure Officer: How Zillow Mastered Timeliness with TikTok’s Viral Trend and The Always-On Influencer Model That’s Redefining Hospitality, and has won the South By Southwest Innovation Award for his work on Brand Safety.
Nicholas has been regularly scheduled as a public speaker including his Keynote at PTTOW, Snowflake's Data Cloud Now, Keynote at AdvertisingWeek, ADWEEK’s Leadership Voices, Cannes, DMS Luma, and on Podcasts such as Creator Upload and Millenium Live Leadership.
He has been featured prominently across media outlets, including his op-ed in ADWEEK, The New York Times, NetInfluencer on Psychology and AI, Digiday Creator Live Shopping, Digiday World Cup, Digiday Forbes Creator, Authenticity in Marketing for eMarketer, Creator Publishing Networks for Digiday, eMarketer Measurement Trends, eMarketer Brand Safety, eMarketer Social Intelligence, Ad Age Creator Benchmarking, LEGO Innovation for AdvertisingWeek, NetInfluencer Brand Safety, and PR Net.
Nicholas is regularly cited by the Social Platforms, including on Google Case Study, Google for Business, and Instagram for Business.
Within the Marketing industry, Nicholas serves on the Board of Directors for the American Advertising Federation, Jury for ADWEEK 50, Creative Strategy Jury for the London International Awards, Jury for the AAF Hall of Achievement, Jury for Clios Creators, an executive member of the The International Academy of Digital Arts and Science and has been honored as a winner of the AI Power 50 for ADWEEK and a winner of the 2026 ADWEEK Agency Vanguard Award.
He has won multiple Shortys for Chief Demure Officer: How Zillow Mastered Timeliness with TikTok’s Viral Trend and The Always-On Influencer Model That’s Redefining Hospitality, and has won the South By Southwest Innovation Award for his work on Brand Safety.